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ANTIGONE: UNCONQUERABLE LOVE; CHORUS by SOPHOCLES

First Line: WHEN LOVE DISPUTES
Last Line: WHO WILL BE BOLD TO FIGHT WITH HER?

WHEN Love disputes
He carries his battles!
Love he loots
The rich of their chattels!
By delicate cheeks
On maiden's pillow
Watches he all the night-time long;
His prey he seeks
Over the billow,
Pastoral haunts he preys among.
Gods are deathless, and they
Cannot elude his whim;
And oh! amid us whose life's a day
Mad is the heart that broodeth him!

And Love can splay
Uprightest of virtue;
Lead astray,
Better to hurt you!
'Tis he did the wrong,
'Tis he beguiled
Father and son to feud so dire.
Desire's too strong!
-- Out of the eyelid
Peeped of a lovely bride, Desire!
He with Law has a court,
Sovran in might with her.
Divine Aphrodite wreaks her sport;
Who will be bold to fight with her?



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